From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
Cc: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2011 21:46:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8vwql4kw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=PDB47t6+raTQ+Uhr2p_3pnJUucE=sHMtkfBGE@mail.gmail.com> (PJ Weisberg's message of "Mon, 7 Mar 2011 12:39:32 -0800")
> I think this proposal is really about code snippets that people would
> otherwise just cut and paste into their .emacs file. The average
> user's .emacs often winds up containing mostly code they found
> somewhere and use without really understanding it. Dropping each
> snippit in its own file would be a big help if the user ever did need
> to debug some problem with his init, or if he decided one day to
> actually learn elisp.
I'm far from convinced it's better for people to drop random chunks of
configuration into separate files rather than all in the .emacs file.
If you're talking about downloading random files containing
configuration code (so the user doesn't have to create a file, inventing
a file name for it), then maybe that could make sense, but I haven't
seen such files very much, and I suspect many of them could easily be
turned either into themes or into packages installable via package.el.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 134+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-01 20:32 user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-03 21:07 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 9:55 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-04 17:18 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-04 18:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-04 18:37 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 19:35 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-04 19:45 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 19:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-04 20:21 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 20:25 ` Chad Brown
2011-03-04 20:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 19:24 ` Chad Brown
2011-03-04 20:26 ` Chad Brown
2011-03-04 20:08 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-04 20:24 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 21:17 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-04 21:33 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-04 21:37 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-05 3:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-05 19:11 ` Chad Brown
2011-03-06 7:21 ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-07 16:24 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-07 17:18 ` Chad Brown
2011-03-07 17:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-08 17:36 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-08 18:30 ` Chad Brown
2011-03-07 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-07 20:39 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-08 2:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2011-03-08 10:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-08 17:14 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-08 18:47 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-08 19:23 ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-09 2:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-09 19:57 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-08 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-08 21:38 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09 7:06 ` Jan D.
2011-03-09 7:17 ` Christoph Scholtes
2011-03-09 10:01 ` Jan Djärv
2011-03-09 15:42 ` `custom-file' and init-file [was: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir] Drew Adams
2011-03-09 17:54 ` `custom-file' and init-file Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-09 21:19 ` `custom-file' and init-file [was: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir] Evans Winner
2011-03-09 21:39 ` `custom-file' and init-file [was: user-controlled load-pathextension: load-dir] Drew Adams
2011-03-10 2:52 ` `custom-file' and init-file [was: user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir] Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-09 17:29 ` user-controlled load-path extension: load-dir Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-09 18:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09 19:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-09 19:57 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 3:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-10 5:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 7:08 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-10 13:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-11 2:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-03-09 21:57 ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-10 7:08 ` Jan Djärv
2011-03-09 6:03 ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-09 7:20 ` Jan D.
2011-03-09 23:44 ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-08 0:47 ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-08 10:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09 6:26 ` Mike Mattie
2011-03-09 11:26 ` Ted Zlatanov
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-08 7:14 Ben Key
2011-03-08 9:58 ` Evans Winner
2011-03-08 18:49 ` PJ Weisberg
[not found] <AANLkTin1zXJQo2vsju7kpa31Nw568m_eNZS+gJ6g2tQO@mail.gmail.com>
2011-03-08 18:49 ` Ben Key
2011-03-08 20:01 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-08 20:25 ` Chad Brown
2011-03-08 20:38 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-08 22:40 ` Chad Brown
2011-03-09 9:36 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-09 11:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-08 22:57 ` Ben Key
2011-03-09 3:28 ` Ben Key
2011-03-09 6:50 ` Ben Key
2011-03-09 7:29 ` Jan D.
2011-03-09 16:00 ` Ben Key
2011-03-09 11:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09 19:51 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-09 20:08 ` Ben Key
2011-03-09 20:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-09 20:32 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-09 20:44 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 11:30 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-10 14:27 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-10 17:23 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-10 18:33 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-10 18:56 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-10 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-10 20:30 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-10 21:54 ` Chong Yidong
2011-03-11 8:43 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-10 19:36 ` Jambunathan K
2011-03-11 15:00 ` chad
2011-03-11 17:41 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-12 5:51 ` chad
2011-03-12 10:09 ` Jan Djärv
2011-03-11 18:51 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-16 14:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-16 15:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-16 20:08 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 2:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-17 3:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 4:42 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-16 20:11 ` Evans Winner
2011-03-16 20:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-10 2:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-17 4:22 Ben Key
2011-03-17 6:31 ` Evans Winner
2011-03-17 10:55 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-17 21:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 21:05 ` Tom Tromey
2011-03-17 21:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-17 22:50 ` Glenn Morris
2011-03-18 2:46 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-18 10:56 ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-18 13:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-18 2:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-19 4:10 Ben Key
2011-03-19 13:29 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-03-19 16:07 ` Ben Key
2011-03-19 14:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-20 2:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-20 12:05 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-23 15:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-03-23 20:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-24 0:03 Ben Key
2011-03-24 14:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-26 11:37 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-04-02 18:35 ` Chong Yidong
2011-04-04 9:54 ` Ted Zlatanov
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